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Kelly Ayotte backs Mitt Romney

New Hampshire's lone Republican senator is throwing her support to Mitt Romney, making it official in an email message that emphasizes the GOP front-runner's electability as well as his economic experience:

First, it is imperative that Republicans nominate our strongest candidate to face President [Barack] Obama. Mitt Romney has proven not only through his prior experience as a successful businessman and governor but also through his solid campaign and excellent debate performances that he is that candidate. We cannot afford another four years of a president who continues to bankrupt America and whose policies hurt the very job creators who can get our economy growing again. We can no longer sit on the sidelines and continue to listen to divisive rhetoric [that] divides our nation. ... Romney will be a strong leader who will unite America. With his strong qualifications and executive leadership experience, he will put America on the path to fiscal responsibility to make sure that we don't continue to crush our children with mountains of debt. ... Romney not only eliminated a $3 billion deficit as Massachusetts governor, he also cut taxes 19 times. And unlike ... Obama, [former] Gov. Romney has spent most of his career in the private sector and knows how to create good jobs.

Second, ... Romney is not only committed to building a stronger economy but he also believes, as I do, in stronger American leadership abroad. He will remain vigilant in the fight against Al Qaeda and Islamist terrorists, and his national-security decisions will be based on advice from our military commanders — not political polls. With a rising China and persistent nuclear threats from rogue nations, we need Gov. Romney's strong, steady leadership to vigorously protect American interests. I trust ... Romney to keep our country safe in a dangerous world.

Third, I believe Gov. Romney will run a campaign against ... Obama that is serious, substantive and one we can be proud of.

Ayotte says in the message that she'll be campaigning with Romney, boosting him in an early state where he's already strong. She joins the her predecessor in the Senate, Judd Gregg, in supporting Romney's campaign and in designating him as the heavy and perhaps prohibitive favorite in the Granite State.

Readers' Comments (30)

These endorsements are all about Newts rise in the NH polls and does absolutely nothing to boost Mitt's standing with people or the polls. We (the majority of conservatives) don't want him (Mitt Romney) and for Kelly Ayotte to say Mitt was this or that doesn't make is so. She is diminishing her self importance by endorsing Mitt Romney.

The bottom line is Romney is in a statistical TIE with Gingrich in his quasi-home state of New Hampshire, a state Romney has been campaigning in for FIVE YEARS. That is EMBARRASSING; so, yes, he better pull out ALL of the endorsements he has been sitting on since it looks like he is going to need every one of them just to squeak by in his HOME state!

You (the majority of conservatives) are the reason we have Obama. Blame yourselves for the debt and the state of affairs this country is in. The bigotry the last time Romney ran and this time from the conservatives is shameful...and all because he's a Mormon.

You (the majority of conservatives) are the reason we have Obama. Blame yourselves for the debt and the state of affairs this country is in. The bigotry the last time Romney ran and this time from the conservatives is shameful...and all because he's a Mormon

You're blaming conservatives for Obama and the debt, etc., because we didn't nominate Mitt Romney in 2008? Well... that has to be the lamest and most uninformed excuse of a support for a candidate that I've heard to date.

I'm a fiscal conservative, I don't care about Romney being a Mormon. It's what he did to us in Mass, with RomneyCare why I don't trust him and I would NEVER vote for him EVER!!

My case against Mitt Romney: The White House will turn him into Gordon Gekko.

Bain Capital, the unltimate Wall Street insider, took companies, stripped them of their assets, made loads of money for Bain Capital and its partners and left the businesses to go bankrupt. May be the most efficient use of capital in the big economic picture but there are employees and families behind each one of those canibalized businesses.

From the movie Wall Street: Bud Fox: How much is enough? Gordon Gekko: It's not a question of enough, pal. It's a zero sum game, somebody wins, somebody loses. Money itself isn't lost or made, it's simply transferred from one perception to another.

How's that going to play against Obama's backdrop of Fat Cat Wall Street that ruined your life?

My case against Mitt Romney: The White House will turn him into Gordon Gekko.

Bain Capital, the unltimate Wall Street insider, took companies, stripped them of their assets, made loads of money for Bain Capital and its partners and left the businesses to go bankrupt. May be the most efficient use of capital in the big economic picture but there are employees and families behind each one of those canibalized businesses.

From the movie Wall Street: Bud Fox: How much is enough? Gordon Gekko: It's not a question of enough, pal. It's a zero sum game, somebody wins, somebody loses. Money itself isn't lost or made, it's simply transferred from one perception to another.

How's that going to play against Obama's backdrop of Fat Cat Wall Street that ruined your life.

"First, it is imperative that Republicans nominate our strongest candidate to face President Obama. Mitt Romney has proven not only through his prior experience as a successful businessman and governor, but also through his solid campaign and excellent debate performances, that he is that candidate."

Ms. Ayotte:

Confessing in a debate that you only fired the illegal ailiens you hired "because I'm running for office for pete's sake" is not being a good debater: it's being a crook like Richard Nixon or third world despots. Each time one of you Washington insiders tout the FLIP FLOPPING Mormon's great debating skills, I remember that it has taken His Royal Mittness 7 years to hone in those skills.

Conservatives do not listen to endorsements by washington insiders who lied to win tea party votes to get elected like you Ms. Ayotte. You will be a one term senator.

Then I google the pro abortist's record and here are the results:www.google.com/search. Next I go to you tube and type in the search query " and here are the results: www.youtube.com/results (in the Massachusett LIBERAL's own words).

Add to that, here is the republican dossier on the gun control despot's flip flopping record: www.redstate.com/erick/files/2011/10/FLIPFLOPS.pdf

Vote 3rd party if the gay marriage queen (Willard) becomes the GOP nominee.

Mormon Church Obtained Vietnam Draft Deferrals for Romney, Other Mormon Missionaries While Other Americans Fought for This Country

By Michael Kranish, Globe Staff | June 24, 2007

As the Vietnam War raged in the 1960s, Mitt Romney received a deferment from the draft as a Mormon "minister of religion" for the duration of his missionary work in France, which lasted two and a half years.

Before and after his missionary deferment, Romney also received nearly three years of deferments for his academic studies. When his deferments ended and he became eligible for military service in 1970, he drew a high number in the annual lottery that determined which young men were drafted. His high number ensured he was not drafted into the military.

The deferments for Mormon missionaries became increasingly controversial in the late 1960s, especially in Utah, leading the Mormon Church and the government to limit the number of church missionaries who could put off their military service. That agreement called for each church ward, or church district, to designate one male every six months to be exempted from potential duty for the duration of his missionary work.

Romney's home state was Michigan, making his 4-D exemption as a missionary all but automatic because of the relatively small number of Mormon missionaries from that state. It might have been more difficult in Utah, where the huge Mormon population meant that there were sometimes more missionaries than available exemptions. Most missions lasted two and a half years, as Romney's did.

Read the entire article from Mitt's friends at the Boston Globe here: www.boston.com/news/politics/2008/specials/romney/articles/part1_side_2/